Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

[Roth Robert <evfool@xxxxxxxxx>]

I did not consider the toolbar being there as a problem, just like there was no problem with notifyOSD notifications appearing on the top of window controls, because when the user hovers the mouse over the notification, it becomes almost invisible, and it sits on top of the toolbar just for a few seconds anyway. The base of the idea is that focusing on smaller screens should not mean forgetting about Desktop or Laptop users with larger screens... imagine a notification appearing on the bottom left side that something has started - for example a download - then to check the progress of it you will have to look at the opposite corner.

Another problem is that some apps use the bottom right corner for some notifications - for example Mozilla products - that means that some app-specific notifications appear in the bottom left corners, other (Mozilla based) appear in the bottom right corner, and the system notifications in the top right corner. (That means three different places to notify the user about something - total confusion) If people have firefox-notifyosd installed, than this is simplified a bit. IMO it would be the best solution to have all the notifications in the top right corner - system notifications in the top-right corner of the desktop, and app-specific notifications in the top-rigth corner of the windows. 

Robert

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 03/05/10 13:22, Roth Robert wrote:
> Another tiny detail I have a problem with... having progress status
> indicators on the top right side and having the transient status
> message appear on the bottom left side seems strange... do the status
> messages have to appear on the bottom left? Until now it was fine
> because the progress indicator was in the statusbar and the status
> message also, but these belong together in my opinion. What if they'd
> appear below the windicators for a short time?

That's an interesting idea. One issue might be that the toolbar usually
shows right below the window title, and it's harder to imagine the
status message over the toolbar than over the content.

> Going even further with the idea... what if they would be NotifyOSD
> messages with smaller bubble, font, and positioned below the window
> border?

We *could* do an overlay, yes.

Mark